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The Oz principle : getting results through individual and organizational accountability / Roger Connors, Tom Smith, Craig Hickman.
Levy Dental Medicine Library - Stacks HD70.U5 C59 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Connors, Roger.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Management--United States.
- Management.
- United States.
- Responsibility.
- Success in business--United States.
- Success in business.
- Organizational Objectives.
- Leadership.
- Organization and Administration.
- Achievement.
- Medical Subjects:
- Organizational Objectives.
- Leadership.
- Organization and Administration.
- Achievement.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [Revised and updated edition], paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Portfolio, 2010.
- Summary:
- Showing how people in business suffer from the same feelings of anxiety and helplessness that beset the characters in "The Wizard of Oz," this volume reveals how employees can move beyond victimization to overcome obstacles, accept responsibility, and rise to new heights of achievement.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The Oz principle: getting results through accountability
- Off to see the wizard: searching for greater accountability in business
- The yellow brick road: getting stuck in the victim cycle
- There's no place like home: focusing on results
- pt. 2. The power of individual accountability: moving yourself above the line
- The lion: mustering the courage to see It
- The tin woodsman: finding the heart to own It
- The scarecrow: obtaining the wisdom to solve It
- Dorothy: exercising the means to do it
- pt. 3. Results through collective accountability: helping your organization perform above the line
- The good witch Glinda: mastering above the line leadership
- The Emerald City and beyond: getting your entire organization above the line
- Somewhere over the rainbow: applying Oz principles to the toughest issues in business today.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781591843481
- 1591843480
- OCLC:
- 981672003
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